2. They would flap bath towels from their balconies as they chatted.
他们聊天时会在阳台上抖搂浴巾。
3. Customers pay to log on and gossip with other users.
顾客付费后登录系统和其他用户聊天。
4. I was chatting to an islander who had just caught a fish.
我正在跟一个刚刚抓到一条鱼的岛民聊天。
5. The women were chatting.
女人们在聊天。
6. We chatted over tea and scones.
我们一边喝茶吃烤饼一边聊天。
7. My kids spend hours chatting on the phone to their friends.
我的几个孩子在电话上和朋友聊天一聊就是几个小时。
8. Please pull up a chair and join the conversation.
请拿过把椅子来一起聊天.
9. We spent a cosy evening chatting by the fire.
我们在炉火旁聊天度过了一个舒适的晚上.
10. A knot of people stood talking outside the door.
一群人站在门外聊天.
11. Let's stop chewing the fat and get down to work.
让我们停止聊天儿,着手工作吧.
12. Father shot the breeze with his neighbour while the children were playing.
孩子们在玩时,父亲与邻居聊天儿.
13. The weather is a stock subject of conversation.
天气是聊天的习惯话题.
14. They like to chat over tea.
他们喜欢一边喝茶一边聊天.
15. We sat by the fire and chatted.
我们坐在炉火旁聊天.
It's not uncommon to see pedestrians using their smartphones. It's actually uncommon to see pedestrians not using their phones. Whether they're hailing an Uber, figuring out which corner they should be on with a map app, or just scrolling through Instagram while waiting for the brunch squad to arrive, it seems walking and finger-typing are the peanut butter and jelly of, well, life.
People may think that they're multitasking maestros, but a new study shows that they're wrong. Mental Floss reports that texting while walking slows down both activities.
The study, conducted by scientists at Anglia Ruskin University in the U.K. and published in PLOS One, challenged a small sample of people (21, to be exact) to use their phones while traversing a short obstacle course. No, this was not some Spartan Race-style mix of fire pits and barbed wire, it was just an "18-foot-long walkway that contained a fibreboard a few inches high and a step-up box." The subjects braved the course while talking on their phones, reading a message, composing a message, and, finally, phone-free. Each test subject travelled the entire thing 12 times.
Of course, having the distraction of a phone slowed the subjects down. The researchers found that subjects also changed the way they walked while they used their phones. Steps were higher and strides were shorter, something the scientists called a "cautious stepping strategy." So not only does a phone slow things down all-around, it makes pedestrians look silly, too.
The test subjects took twice as long to traverse the course while writing a message and 67% longer when reading one. Talking on the phone slowed them down, too, but not as much as composing a text. Surprisingly, nobody fell down during the study.
The findings show that it's probably a good idea to separate the two activities if accuracy and actually getting places are the end goal. Not only does multitasking actually slow down the tasks at hand, everyone looks strange when they're craned over their phones, rushing to get from place to place.